This project demonstrates firewall management and network monitoring across multiple platforms, including Cisco, Palo Alto, and pfSense. It covers the implementation of security policies, VPN configurations, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and log analysis to protect networks from unauthorized access and cyber threats.

🔎 Skills Learned:

✅ Configuring security policies & access control
✅ Implementing NAT, VPNs, and SSL decryption
✅ Managing intrusion detection & prevention systems (IDS/IPS)
✅ Monitoring & analyzing network traffic logs for security threats
✅ Troubleshooting advanced firewall configurations

🛠 Tools Used:

🔹 Firewalls: Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, pfSense
🔹 Networking Tools: Wireshark, Syslog servers, VPN tools
🔹 Monitoring & Analysis: Traffic dashboards, log analyzers
🔹 Virtualization: VMware, VirtualBox

📌 Firewall Tasks & Configurations

🔥 Palo Alto Firewall Tasks

📌 Configured advanced firewall features for enterprise network security.
📌 Implemented SSL decryption & VPN tunneling for secure remote access.
📌 Managed User-ID & App-ID policies to restrict unauthorized access.

🔥 Cisco Firewall Tasks

📌 Configured ACLs, NAT, and site-to-site VPN for controlled access.
📌 Monitored real-time network traffic using Cisco ASDM & CLI.
📌 Implemented IPS/IDS rules for automated threat mitigation.

🔥 pfSense Firewall Tasks

📌 Set up open-source firewall security for cost-effective network protection.
📌 Implemented Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) & certificate-based authentication.
📌 Configured deep packet inspection (DPI) & DNS filtering for enhanced monitoring.